IT\S FVR WHO SHOULD APOLOGIZE!

Nov. 13, 2016

IT\S FVR WHO SHOULD APOLOGIZE!

A story in philstar.com said according to former president Fidel V. Ramos (FVR), the Marcos family owes the Filipino people an apology for the abuses under martial law and that the 1986 EDSA 1 revolt in 1986 should neither be forgotten nor trivialized.

On the contrary, IT’S RAMOS WHO SHOULD SAY SORRY to the people. It’s HIK, WHO SHOUYLD HAVE APOLOGIZED, IMMEDIATELY, for TWO MAJOR REASONS which only he himself is accountable for.

First: Anybody correct me if I’m wrong but until he JOINED then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile in breaking away from, the Marcos Government during EDSA 1, NEVER was it known that FVR did anything to stop what he now describes as abuses during Martial Law. FVR DID NOT RESIGN as chief of both the Philippine Constabulary (PC) and the Integrated National Police (INP) from the Marcos Government until EDSA 1, despite the abuses he now trumpets.  For those who were not born yet during EDSA 1, the revolt was started ONLY by Enrile and then Col. Gringo Honasan and his Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM). They had already announced their breakaway when FVR joined them.

Second: There were a lot of reports of abuses by both policemen and PC soldiers during Martial Law. FVR WAS THEIR IMMEDIATE BOSS. But, again, anybody correct me if I’m wrong, FVR was NEVER REPORTED as having apologized to Martial Law victims or to the Filipino people as a whole. This, despite the fact that FVR was THE ONE IN DIRECT CONTACT with the PC soldiers and policemen and not then President Ferdinand Marcos (FM), whom his critics are SOLELY BLAMING for abuses during Martial Law.

Only the innocent has the MORAL RIGHT to demand an apology from what he says is the abusive leader of an event in which he was also a participant. IF FVR or any of his men did not commit any abuses during Martial Law, then it should not be a problem for him to prove it. 30